GSC Report on current activities – Q4 2021

by Pavel Tregubov, GSC Secretary, 9 December 2021

In the fourth quarter 2021 GSC is being involved in the following activities and projects:

• World Championship Match 2021 – negotiations with EXPO and with a number of commercial, broadcasting and media partners

• Preparation of the various FIDE presentations, including “FIDE World Championship” presentation, General, Youth, Women GP, Senior etc…

• Drafting a contract with NBC on the World Championship Match broadcast

• Organisation of the World Championship Match 2021

• Organisation of the FIDE Women’s World Team Championship 2021

• Preparation and holding of the Grand Swiss and WGS 2021

• Preparation of the Regulations for R&B 2021

• Organisation of R&B 2021

• Negotiations with potential organisers of the Candidates and Women’s Candidates Tournaments 2022

• Negotiations with potential organisers of the Women’s GP Series 2022

• Preparation and holding meetings with (potential) partners and sponsors – MTS, Mahindra, Motiva, Visa, Tinkoff, Chevron, T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, GUM, Sberbank, Phosagro, Ton Labs.

• Preparation and realisation of the contract with Motiva

• Preparation of joint projects with chess.com and chess24.com.

• Preparation of the agreement with Chess.com on online broadcast of major FIDE events

• Preparation of the FIDE bidding procedures within the Task Force group

• Preparation of the Regulations for the Chess Olympiad 2022

• Preparation of contracts between FIDE and Open tournaments awarded with FIDE Aid Packages

• Launching the FIDE Aid Package 2022 project for open tournaments